Jan. 12, 2007 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 Debbie V. Nguyen Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 Roger Bornstein Space Center Houston 281-244-2135 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-006 EDUCATOR ASTRONAUT BARBARA MORGAN TO MEET STUDENTS AND MEDIA HOUSTON - NASA's first educator astronaut and former Idaho school teacher Barbara Morgan, set to fly in space this summer, will meet with hundreds of students during "Meet an Astronaut Day" at Space Center Houston Jan. 19. Morgan also will be ...Continue Reading

Jan. 12, 2007 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-005 LIVE NASA TV COVERAGE FOR ARRIVAL OF NEXT SPACE STATION CARGO SHIP HOUSTON - The crew aboard the International Space Station will receive a new shipment of food, fuel and supplies from a Russian Progress spacecraft due to dock with the station on Friday, Jan. 19. NASA Television will broadcast the arrival live. After launching from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kaz ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for January 12, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *January 12, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: January 12, 2007 04:41 pm EDT* *The Great Comet of 2007: Watch it on the Web*Comet McNaught is now also visible to armchair astronomers via images posted to the Internet from the Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) spacecraft. Read Mo ...Continue Reading

Jan. 12, 2007 Grey Hautaluoma Headquarters, Washington 202-358-0668 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 STATUS REPORT: SS07-02 INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION STATUS REPORT: SS07-02 HOUSTON - After a three-day holiday to celebrate the Russian Orthodox Christmas, astronauts on the International Space Station spent the week packing trash into the Progress 22 cargo craft and unpacking items delivered by Progress 23 as they prepared for the arrival of new supplies. Packed with discarded item ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 11 January 2007. -- FLOOD (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- SEASONAL FLOODING IN MALAWI As seasonal rains settled into Malawi in early January 2007, the Shire River burst its dry-season banks and spread over its marshy flood plain. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14073 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 11 2007 (Posted on Jan 11 2007 5:37PM) TORRENTIAL RAIN BRINGS FLOODS AND LANDSLIDES TO BRAZIL Torrential rain pounded southeastern Brazil during the first ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 09 January 2007. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA In Vicotira, bushfires that began in early December 2006 were still burning in 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14068 *** MODIS(Terra) image from Jan 10 2007 (Posted on Jan 10 2007 10:17AM) -- VOLCANO (2 updated events, 2 new images) -- SOUFRIERE HILLS ACTIVITY The Soufriere Hills on Montserrat erupted on January 8, 2007, prompting a partial evacuation of the i ...Continue Reading

The following sections were updated since 10 January 2007. -- FIRE (1 updated events, 1 new images) -- FIRES IN VICTORIA, AUSTRALIA In Victoria, bushfires that began in early December 2006 were still burning in 2007. * http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/shownh.php3?img_id=14071 *** MODIS(Aqua) image from Jan 11 2007 (Posted on Jan 11 2007 1:00PM) --------------------------------------------------------------------- Natural Hazards is a service of NASA's Earth Observatory. http://naturalhazards.nasa.gov/ http://ear ...Continue Reading

Jan. 12, 2007 Allard Beutel Headquarters, Washington 202-358-4769 James Hartsfield Johnson Space Center, Houston 281-483-5111 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-007 COLORADO NATIVE FLYING ON NEXT SHUTTLE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS HOUSTON - NASA astronaut and Steamboat Springs, Colo., native Steven R. Swanson, a crew member of the Space Shuttle Atlantis' STS-117 mission, is available for interviews by satellite Jan. 17. The STS-117 mission is targeted for launch in March. This will be the first space flight for Swanson. He w ...Continue Reading

Jan. 11, 2007 Dwayne Brown/Tabatha Thompson Headquarters, Washington 202-358-1726/3895 Michael Buckley Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Md. 240-228-7536 MEDIA ADVISORY: M07-004 NASA BRIEFING TO PREVIEW JUPITER FLYBY OF PLUTO MISSION WASHINGTON - NASA will host a news briefing at 1 p.m. EST, Thursday, Jan. 18, to preview the flight of the Pluto-bound New Horizons spacecraft through the Jupiter system. The briefing will take place in the NASA Headquarters auditorium, 300 E St., S.W., ...Continue Reading

SPACE.com Update for January 11, 2007  * DESTINATIONS:* *News* *|* *SpaceFlight* *|* *Science/Astronomy* *|* *SETI* *|*   *Space Business News* *January 11, 2007*     *TOP STORY* *posted: January 11, 2007 11:17 am EDT* *Eavesdropping on ET Sooner Than We Think*On Wednesday, January 10, here at the American Astronomical Society Meeting in Seattle, theorist Dr. Avi Loeb from Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics led a pr ...Continue Reading